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Lance Corporal JOSEPH GEORGE RIPLEY ASHTON

Service Number: 996
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Fusiliers

22nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 February 1916

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VIEILLE-CHAPELLE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, LACOUTURE

IX. F. 9.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Florence Wilhelmina Ashton, of S Morgan St., Canning Town, London.
  • Personal Inscription GOD TOOK HIM FROM THE STRIFE UNTO EVERLASTING LIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

VIEILLE-CHAPELLE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, LACOUTURE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 994
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